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First and second generation impacts of the biafran war
Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Leone, Marinella; … - 2017
impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716133
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Strategic Choices in Polygamous Households: Theory and Evidence from Senegal
Rossi, Pauline - 2016
complements. One wife raises her fertility in response to an increase by the other wife, because children are the best claim to …This paper proposes a strategic framework to account for fertility choices in polygamous households. A theoretical … model specifies the main drivers of fertility in the African context and describes how the fertility of one wife might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000556
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Adverse selection in the marriage market: HIV testing and marriage in rural Malawi
Angelucci, Manuela; Bennett, Daniel - 2020
Asymmetric information in the marriage market may cause adverse selection and delay marriage if partner quality is revealed over time. Sexual safety is an important but hidden partner attribute, especially in areas where HIV is endemic. A model of positive assortative matching with both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271316
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Excess female mortality in Africa
Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - 2017
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688610
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Excess female mortality in Africa
Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - 2017
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646240
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Experimental evidence from an integrated early childhood parenting program in Sierra Leone
Chandra, Anjali; Mani, Subha; Dolphin, Heather; Dyson, … - 2021
We present findings from an integrated early childhood parenting program on stunting and wasting in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Importantly, where half the communities were randomly assigned to receive the parenting program and the remaining half served as a control that received standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419151
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Human Capital Diversification within the Household: Findings from Rural Tanzania
Lilleør, Helene Bie - Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM), Økonomisk … - 2008
Lack of primary schooling among rural children in developing countries is often attributed to credit constraints and … parents rely on their children for old-age support and subsistence. In this paper, I propose an alternative model for human … costs of educating all their children and face uncertainty about the level and share of future returns. This uncertainty can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749483
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Understanding Pareto inefficient intrahousehold allocations
Akresh, Richard - 2005
Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources within households is Pareto inefficient, contradicting the main assumption of most collective models of intrahousehold bargaining. He finds that among plots planted with the same crop in the same year, within a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267282
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Increasing Women's Empowerment: Implications for Family Welfare
Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly M.; O'Sullivan, Michael - 2021
Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path to economic development. We propose and test a novel economic intervention that relies on intra-household transfers of productive assets to increase womenââ'¬â"¢s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882437
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Altruism, cooperation, and efficiency: Agricultural production in polygynous households
Akresh, Richard; Chen, Joyce J.; Moore, Charity - 2011
Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We find that cooperation is greater -...
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